Author Topic: A random thread for cycling things that don't really warrant their own thread (Read 107486 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #200 on:** 19 September, 2019, 10:27:34 am »

A good deed well done.

Ham · « **Reply #201 on:** 20 September, 2019, 09:45:18 pm »

Would it be very wrong to add an omafiets to the stable? I suspect so, because their endearment to me is more about how and where I was riding this last week than the quality of ride (fascinatingly relaxed).

Kim · « **Reply #202 on:** 20 September, 2019, 10:43:31 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 20 September, 2019, 09:45:18 pm

Would it be very wrong to add an omafiets to the stable? I suspect so, because their endearment to me is more about how and where I was riding this last week than the quality of ride (fascinatingly relaxed).

Will there be hills? If so, a heavy single-speed without the full legal complement of brakes would seem unwise.

ElyDave · « **Reply #203 on:** 20 September, 2019, 10:52:51 pm »

To the dimwit riding on the road between Ely and our village after dark o'clock today, wearing black

GET SOME FUCKING LIGHTS YOU TIT!

Pingu · « **Reply #204 on:** 20 September, 2019, 10:59:26 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 20 September, 2019, 10:52:51 pm

To the dimwit riding on the road between Ely and our village after dark o'clock today, wearing black

GET SOME FUCKING LIGHTS YOU TIT!

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=76283.0

Ham · « **Reply #205 on:** 23 September, 2019, 11:18:59 am »

Quote from: Kim on 20 September, 2019, 10:43:31 pm

Quote from: Ham on 20 September, 2019, 09:45:18 pm
Would it be very wrong to add an omafiets to the stable? I suspect so, because their endearment to me is more about how and where I was riding this last week than the quality of ride (fascinatingly relaxed).

Will there be hills? If so, a heavy single-speed without the full legal complement of brakes would seem unwise.

Hills? London? nah.

Actually, the omafiets came as a surprise (there is also actually an opafiets with a crossbar rather than step through). It is a lot higher than expected, with a strange handling characteristics resulting from the high CoG and castor angle. Not sure what the gearing was - maybe 60" or thereabouts? So hills shouldn't be too much an issue, and the rear coaster is up to the performance.

But no, I think I will be resisting.

ElyDave · « **Reply #206 on:** 23 September, 2019, 08:01:31 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 20 September, 2019, 10:59:26 pm

Quote from: ElyDave on 20 September, 2019, 10:52:51 pm
To the dimwit riding on the road between Ely and our village after dark o'clock today, wearing black

GET SOME FUCKING LIGHTS YOU TIT!

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=76283.0

Kim · « **Reply #207 on:** 24 September, 2019, 12:14:20 am »

It's that time of year again. The one where you can identify the nationality of the freshers by how they react to bicycle bells.

ElyDave · « **Reply #208 on:** 24 September, 2019, 05:47:51 am »

In Cambridge tourists and students alike seem to think the the cyclists will do all the work in avoidance, even on normal roads, which get treated as pavements

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #209 on:** 24 September, 2019, 01:43:47 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 23 September, 2019, 11:18:59 am

Hills? London? nah.

Miss von Brandenburg, as a resident of Pystal Crapace, might disagree but then in Saarrff London the dragons need somewhere to nest.

T42 · « **Reply #210 on:** 24 September, 2019, 02:12:37 pm »

El Prez is just back from presiding over an FFCT holiday in Hendaye. Over 50% of participants were on ebikes.

bludger · « **Reply #211 on:** 25 September, 2019, 07:16:04 pm »

I did a sample session at a turbo trainer studio today, using Wahoo Kickr trainers. I was astonished at how good they were. The way the ergo mode feature 'locks on' to a wattage in particular is brilliant. Far better than the magnetic trainers that I've used before. Not cheap though...!

Kim · « **Reply #212 on:** 25 September, 2019, 07:20:51 pm »

It's a right skogfest out there today, with bonus flooding.

Won't be long until chutney season is upon us. I noticed that one bit of lane smelled like November.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #213 on:** 25 September, 2019, 09:20:19 pm »

Don't know about November (though "as ugly as November" is a Polish phrase which I think transfers rather well into English) but there's a genuine October Lane down here in the Capital of WoE. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=360012&Y=176537&A=Y&Z=106

ElyDave · « **Reply #214 on:** 25 September, 2019, 10:02:24 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 25 September, 2019, 07:20:51 pm

It's a right skogfest out there today, with bonus flooding.

Won't be long until chutney season is upon us. I noticed that one bit of lane smelled like November.

soem funny smells around here as well, a mix of fermenting fruit and burning rubber somehow

Basil · « **Reply #215 on:** 30 September, 2019, 08:47:01 pm »

Check out the footware required for a Welsh Cycling event held in Llandysmul.

https://twitter.com/rhiannonwalton/status/1178357672707592192?s=19

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #216 on:** 02 October, 2019, 01:07:56 pm »

Gravity doesn't have to get you down.

Basil · « **Reply #217 on:** 12 October, 2019, 05:00:46 pm »

A lot of beech trees around here.. I can tell you that very thick beech nut and husk chutney is much worse than traditional leaf chutney. Particularly when descending one of our local chevrons with poorly adjusted rim breaks.
Decided to dismount on the hair pin, shoulder first.
No damage.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #218 on:** 12 October, 2019, 07:26:59 pm »

At least there was no canal!

Basil · « **Reply #219 on:** 12 October, 2019, 07:38:18 pm »

No. But there is the Teifi, which in its current state would be much, much worse.

I must improve my upper body strength, so when I use my upper arm as a fall cushion, there is actually some cushion.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #220 on:** 12 October, 2019, 11:06:04 pm »

Quote

I've got my Brompton, a highly prized and exceptionally rideable cycle, folded into something similar to the size of a triple gatefold-sleeve lp set of albums by Yes. It's the next best thing we have on the planet to a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.

Peter Finch, Edging the Estuary, 2013

Kim · « **Reply #221 on:** 13 October, 2019, 06:25:40 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 12 October, 2019, 11:06:04 pm

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I've got my Brompton, a highly prized and exceptionally rideable cycle, folded into something similar to the size of a triple gatefold-sleeve lp set of albums by Yes. It's the next best thing we have on the planet to a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.
Peter Finch, Edging the Estuary, 2013

"Invisibility cloak" describes the effect they have on drivers, too.

Paul · « **Reply #222 on:** 16 October, 2019, 12:36:35 pm »

I was wondering recently whether I like cycling or whether what I actually like is bikes.

Before anyone deletes my account, I really do like cycling, love it, indeed. But there are times when I think I might love bikes more. I know it's not really an either/or thing. For example, part of what I love about bikes is the fact that they can be ridden. And I'm not crazy about the idea of a bike that will never be ridden (unless it's beyond riding, maybe).

But there are certainly times when I think I'd rather be fettling/cleaning than riding.

I don't care about this much (hence putting it here), but thought I'd mention it.

grams · « **Reply #223 on:** 17 October, 2019, 10:30:52 am »

Who TF designs a rim brake frame with the seat stay rack eyelets level with the brake bridge?

I mean it works fine as long as you don’t want to install a back brake and a rear rack at the same time.

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #224 on:** 17 October, 2019, 07:37:56 pm »

Answer to above may be Thorn. I've been trying a few racks I had and two of them foul the v brakes. Suppose I could run a rear canto or more likely will modify the rack to bolt on inside of stays. I was actually complaining about this last night to Jan